Intersectoral linkages and their implications for employment creation in Turkey: A comparative Input - Output Analysis for 1979, 1985 and 1990

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1998

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Ruben, Ester Biton

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the employment effects of industrialization for Turkey. To this purpose, the input-output tables for the years 1979, 1985, and 1990 are analyzed. It is found that in each year all sectors have high dependency ratios on manufacturing sector. This provides proof of the existence of a fairly well-developed manufacturing sector in all the examined years. Another result is that the post-1980 export-oriented policies have not been sufficiently successful in shifting the structure of employment from manufacturing to services. The examination of sectoral output multipliers suggest that the transition from an inward-looking strategy to an outward-looking one has increased intersectoral linkages and the employment creating effects of industrialization. While the first few years of the outward-oriented period witnessed an increase in the linkages between sectors, there has been an important decline in later years.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/108433

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